Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
MITSKII know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
More Mitski Quotes
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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